DECOMPOSED BODY OF SLAIN CONTRACTOR RECOVERED.

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Police To Carry Out Autopsy.

 

What smacks of kill and carry internecine conflict was partially demystified last Thursday with the recovery of the body of the slain contractor, Charles Chukwuemeka Ikwumezie of Amure, Isu LGA. The murder took place at Ukwu Akpu area of Owerri close to Assumpta Cathedral on the 14th of September 2012 about the morning hours.

The deceased who was shot at a building site slumped and died on the spot. His body was later driven away to an unknown destination.

Last Thursday, the corpse was found abandoned inside an anthill by the side of a bush path leading to farmlands and grazing locations for cattle along the tarred road to Umuokane village Ohaji/Egbema LGA.

The recovery was made by brave and courageous homicide squad from the state Criminal Investigation Department CID, Owerri accompanied by its photographer, the deceased relations and sympathizers.

The corpse was identified by the brothers, Chimezie Ikwumezie and James Ikwumezie before it was removed from the spot.

The search for the recovery began in earnest when an informant phoned Chinedu alerting him about a corpse abandoned by the side of a foot path leading to a farmland off Umuokane Road Ohaji/Egbema LGA. Later, another caller phoned and confirmed the information.

Neither disclosed his identify and decided to remain anonymous lest the killers still at large come to regard them as their next target.

The long and arduous search was like an episode in a movie series as the squad braved all odds including visible threats to their safety after being alerted that uniformed armed men had been guarding the corpse since it was deposited in that remote isolated neighborhood.

State CID investigators who headed the recovery mission did a highly commendable humanitarian job for carrying the body in its very bad condition back to Owerri.

Because of its state of decomposition, the corpse was rejected by most the mortuaries in town.

It was however accepted at the second mortuary but later rejected by the mortician who had earlier insisted on a fee of N70, 000 including the cost of chemicals for the embalmment.

However, after depositing the Corpse, the mortician, called and asked that the decomposing body should be taken away.

But after prolonged dialogue and pleading, the mortician was paid N100,000.

It will be recalled that Charles Ikwumezie’s co – worker at the site Ugochukwu Iheme who was shot at the neck on the fateful day and hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC died on Wednesday, 20th September, 2012. The body is still in the mortuary for autopsy.

Reports reaching our newsroom indicate that the police are to carry out autopsy on the two corpses.